Colonial and Postcolonial Cultures

From Black Lives Matter to ‘Why is my curriculum white?’, it remains vital to think about how colonialism shaped the world and how cultures function in its aftermath.

By studying cultural forms such as film, the media, and literature ranging from novels to travel guides and biographies, we stimulate both academic and public debate on how individuals, communities and societies experience, remember and build anew from the legacies of colonialism.

Grainne Goodwin's work on how intermediaries, both people and texts, made sense of encounters and experiences in colonial locations such as India, including her current book project 'Travel Guides and the Modern World'.